One area that the academic colleagues identified as being lacking in their 'Toolkit' was a lightweight and, above all, low-cost, Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) tool. Many dedicated CADQAS software packages are expensive and are adapted for installation on single computers; it is commonplace to find such software on the networks of Universities in the UK, but many of the potential 'Client group' had intermittent access to the network via shared machines. A networked CAQDAS application offering the opportunity for researchers, data and analysis to be distributed across the network seemed to be the answer. Inspired by Jon Udell's 'Practical Internet Groupware' and by the development of a number of Perl modules for parsing and querying XML, the author used XML::Parser and XML::Twig.
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